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Concerning Mahatma Gandhi's Activities

Concerning Mahatma Gandhi's Activities

Chapter:

(p.43)
Chapter Six Concerning Mahatma Gandhi's Activities

Source:

Inside India

Author(s):

Halidé Edib

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195699999.003.0008

Mahatma Gandhi was involved in many activities, foremost of which was to build Indian society from the ground up. He wanted to see untouchability in India abolished and sought the regeneration of villages as well as communal unity. Most Hindus believed that caste, and, above all, untouchability, was essential to Hinduism. Gandhi's pronouncement about caste was not definite, but he was clear and emphatic in condemning untouchability. He was certain that there were sanctions in the Gita for the abolition of untouchability.

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